IS IT A DREAM OR REALITY?

CHAPTER NINE

Mrs Carroll is standing in front of me, carrying a knife in her hand,
How did she gets up so fast?
Or maybe she was pretending to lose consciousness, to double the number of her victims, me, Steven and Matt...
No, this won't be happen, I'm not going to let history repeats itself
But how, how can I stop her from doing something  reckless
I drowned in my thoughts again until I felt the knife she was holding in her hand pierced my stomach, she stabs me with it, then I feel it again coming out of my stomach,
it hurts a lot, it's a horrible feeling...
Will we all die here?
Is the fate of  the three of us to die together at the hands of a woman who wants to take her revenge?
Will we be victims of revenge?
Many questions come to my mind at this moment
I press the wound with my hand, and I fall to the ground, while Carroll ran away,
Steven puts Matt on the floor, and runs to me, he pulls off his jacket and puts it on my wound to stop the bleeding, then, he holds me between his arms  "Rachel.... No, No... This can't be happen, it's impossible... Rachel, don't leave me okay, please stay with me... I'm here, I won't let you ever, just stay awake" Steven is saying
I don't feel anything, I start losing consciousness and then come back again, lose consciousness and come back over and over
Carroll stabbed me and ran away, Matt is over there, he can't move or stand by himself he needs help, I'm here, bleeding on the floor and Steven is holding me in his arms,
We are in a mess,
Steven takes his phone to call the emergency
He called them, told them about me and Matt, he told them the address, the name of the street and the number of the house, and where exactly is the location of the house
But even though he called them, he insists to take me out
"Richel, get me well, can you hear me, I'll carry you out and look for help, then I'll go back to Matt" Steven says
But I don't let him carry me, I move my head saying no, I try to speak "No, just take Matt out, then come back to me"
Steven says "No, it is impossible to leave you here"
I say "I told you to go, just go, take him and go to find help, then come back to me, okay? I will be fine
Steven puts me on the floor, then goes to Matt, and carry him, then they go up
Matt's chance of surviving is higher than my chance, at least he's not bleeding like me, and I knew, through his speech, how much he wants to live, despite all this, he still wants to return to his previous life
I also wanna live, I don't wanna die now, especially, here, but I chose to save him first
I think I'll be fine, I will survive if Steven brings help, which I'm sure he'll, I just need to press the wound to stop the bleeding, while Steven finds help and returns to get me out

Almost ten minutes have passed since Steven left
I start to lose consciousness again, I'm trying to stay awake, but that's impossible
Before I lose consciousness, I heard a sound it belongs to the police car, it was the last thing I heard
I wake up to find myself in the hospital,
when I first opened my eyes, everything seemed unclear, but soon, everything turned out, I see my mother sleeping in the chair next to me
I start to remember everything that happened, I don't know if I should be happy because I survived, or should I be In shock and fear, for what I went through
Matt... I remember, Matt
I lost consciousness that's why I don't know what happened next, I don't know if Steven was able to find help, are they okay now?
Everything is vague,
My Mom wakes up
She turns to me, and finds me staring at her, she gets up from her place, then sits next to me in the bed, she holds my hands and kisses them, and says "My sweetie, are you okay, thank God you woke up, I was afraid, I thought that I lost you my little girl"
She speaks and cries
I never wanted to make my mother cry, I didn't want to make her live, the experience of losing someone else, after she lost my father in an accident
I was eleven years old when we lost my father, I remember my mother crying, every night, I don't want to make her live the same experience again
I say "Don't worry Mom, I'm fine, we will be fine okay,
I love you"
Mom says "I love you too, honey"
I tell Mom to raise the bed so that I can talk
I ask her about what happened, because I can't remember anything of what happened after I lost conscious
Mom says "I don't really know, honey, that boy called me, his name Steven, he told me that you were with him in the hospital, and that I should come"
I say "Where is Steven now?"
Mom answers "He's stayed by your side since they brought you here, he spent the last night here, while I went home to take a shower and bring you some clothes, he went to buy some food now"
I say "What about Matt, is he okay? Where is he? You know Matt, do you?"
Mom says "Yes honey,I know him, they brought you both that night, he is in the third floor, he woke up before you"
I ask Mom "How much I stayed unconscious?"
"Three days, honey..." Mom says
While Mom and I are talking, Steven enters the chamber, with a bag of different fruits in his hand, when Mom saw him enter, she comes close to me and whisper "I'm gonna leave you two to talk, okay honey, I'll be close if you need something" then she kisses me on the forehead and leaves
Steven is coming towards me, while I ask him thousands of questions but he approaches me without saying a word, he puts what he was holding in his hand on the chair, then he is bending towards me, and kisses me, his warm lips, completely above mine, I kiss him too Then he sits next to me, we stay silent for some time, Steven stairs at me,
I ask him "How are you....Steve?"
He keeps silent, then he says "Look at you, you're laying here and yet, you asking me how I am, you're such a fool girl" and he laughs...
Watching him smiling brings life and comfort to me, I feel okay after seeing him besides me with his smile, and the most important, he's is fine, he didn't hurt
I ask him "Steven what happened? I need to know"
He says "Rachel, can we skip talk about that accident, and focus on you now, you need to be okay, I'll tell you everything in the right time, all you need right now is to be okay, and forget everything else... Your wound needs to heal..."
I say while I'm smiling "Okay, I'm not going to insist on you, but promise me that you'll tell me soon"
He says "I promise..."